Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.
An actor's career relies on a lot of luck. Being in the right place at the right time.
The trouble is people leave too much to luck. They get married and then trust to luck. They should be sure in the first place.
Fortunately, I had the luck to be able to begin to work and realize my potential in something that I like to do, and in something I had wanted to do, which was acting.
You can't avoid mistakes and bad luck.
Good luck in most cases comes through the misfortune of others.
They do say that when a man starts down hill everybody is ready to help him with a kick, and I suppose it is so.
When you start in movie business. . . It is a business, actually. Nothing to do with art. Picasso is art, and Giacometti, but film acting is no art. Just the luck of being discovered, maybe.
Luck favors the prepared mind.
The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
Not a man alive has so much luck that he can play with it.
Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
Love itself draws on a woman nearly all the bad luck in the world
When you laugh, you receive luck
Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle.
Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes
You have this world of mathematics, which is very real and which contains all kinds of wonderful stuff. And then we also have the world of nature, which is real, too. And that, by some miracle, the language that nature speaks is the same language that we invented for mathematics. That's just an amazing piece of luck, which we don't understand.
It's funny, this thing about happiness. It's a commodity that was imported from America in the Fifties. I see myself simply as living my life. . . . I feel it's pushing your luck to define how happy you are.
You can't wish a body any worse luck than to get what he wants.